In the name of Allah, Most Beneficent, Most Merciful

CURRICULUM VITAE
of
DR. ABDULAZEEZ ABDULRAHEEM
Associate Professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals,
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
ResearcherID: S-5961-2017

1. PERSONAL BACKGROUND ...................................................................................................................... 2

1.1 PERSONAL........................................................................................................................................... 2
1.2 EDUCATION ........................................................................................................................................ 2
2.1 MAJOR COURSES ............................................................................................................................... 2
1.3 PROFESSIONAL RECORD ................................................................................................................. 3

2. R & D ACCOMPLISHMENTS ..................................................................................................................... 4

2.1 PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS AND PROCEEDINGS ................................................................ 4
2 TECHNICAL NOTES ................................................................................................................................. 19
3 PATENTS ................................................................................................................................................... 19
4 BOOKS/BOOK CHAPTERS ...................................................................................................................... 20
5 LIST OF SUPERVISED M.S. OR PH.D. THESES: TITLES AND ABSTRACTS .................................... 20
2.5 LIST OF RESEARCH PROJECTS AT KFUPM/RI - COMPLETED OR IN PROGRESS ................................ 23
2.6 LIST OF RESEARCH PROJECT PROPOSALS, PRE-PROPOSALS, OR CONCEPTS – COMPLETED OR
IN PROGRESS ......................................................................................................................................... 25

2.7 LIST OF RESEARCH REPORTS ............................................................................................................ 27

3. PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE AND LEADERSHIP..................................................................... 28

3.1 RESEARCH GROUPS LED OR COORDINATED................................................................................ 28
3.2 RESEARCH COMMITTEES PARTICIPATION ................................................................................... 29

3.3 LABORATORY DEVELOPMENT RESPONSIBILITIES .................................................................... 29

3.4 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (IN PARALLEL TO OTHER ASSIGNMENTS) ........................ 30

3.5 MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES ............................................................................... 30

4. PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE ................................................................................... 30

4.1 COURSE TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS AT KFUPM ........................................................................... 30
4.2 PARTICIPATION IN SHORT COURSES.............................................................................................. 31
4.3 COMMITTEE WORK ............................................................................................................................ 32
4.4 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS ................................................................................................................... 32

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 CURRICULUM VITAE
of
DR. ABDULAZEEZ ABDULRAHEEM
Associate Professor
Department of Petroleum Engineering
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)
P.O. Box: 1105, Dhahran 31261, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 00-966-3-860-2604 (office)

1. PERSONAL BACKGROUND

1.1 PERSONAL

Date of Birth : April 5, 1961

Place of Birth : Hyderabad, India
Nationality : Indian
Linguistic skills: English, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, and Telugu
Marital Status : Married
Children : Three

1.2 EDUCATION

1994 Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering, GPA 4.0/4.0, University of Oklahoma,

Norman, OK, USA.

Dissertation Topic:
Constitutive Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Compacting Reservoir Rocks.

1985 Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science,

Bangalore, India.

Thesis Topic:
Dynamic Analysis of Electric Circuit Breakers Subjected to Earthquake
Ground Motions.

1983 Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.

2.1 MAJOR COURSES

Advanced Rock Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Advanced Mechanics of Materials,

Experimental Stress Analysis, Advanced Finite Element Method, Advanced Numerical
Methods, Advanced Foundation Engineering, Structural Mechanics, Structural Dynamics.

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1.3 PROFESSIONAL RECORD

2/11 till Prsnt: Associate Professor, Dept. of Petroleum Engineering, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia

8/01 to 2/11: Research Engineer-II, Center for Petroleum and Minerals, Research Institute,
KFUPM, Saudi Arabia

1/94 to 8/01: Research Engineer-III, Center for Petroleum and Minerals, Research Institute,
KFUPM, Saudi Arabia

8/90 to 1/94: Graduate Research Assistant: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.

Responsibilities included:
 Laboratory testing on soil and rock samples (Preparation of specimens;
Porosity and permeability measurements; Acoustic P-wave measurements;
Tests along different stress paths on Cubical and Triaxial Cells).
 Analysis of laboratory and field data
 Development of new laboratory techniques
 Development of constitutive models
 Development of numerical simulators
 Report writing

8/89 to 5/90: Graduate Teaching Assistant: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

Responsibilities included:
 Conducting Tutorials for "Mechanics of Materials"
 Conducting Laboratory Sessions for "Soil Mechanics"

8/87 to 8/89: Lecturer, Dept. of Civil Engineering, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Responsibilities included:
 Taught a course on "Engineering Graphics" for seven semesters.

8/85 to 8/87: Graduate Teaching Assistant: KFUPM

Responsibilities included:
 Conducting Tutorial Sessions on "Engineering Statics"
 Conducting Tutorial Sessions on "Mechanics of Materials"

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 2. R & D ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2.1 PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS AND PROCEEDINGS

Journal Papers:

1. Faruque, M. O., M. Zaman, and A. Abdulraheem (1992). On Modeling Stress-Strain

and Dilatant Behavior of Cohesionless Soil. Indian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 22,
No. 3, pp. 175-195.

2. Abdulraheem, A., M. O. Faruque, and M. Zaman (1993). A Two Characteristic

Model for Cohesionless Soil and Its Calibration Using Optimization, International
Journal of Plasticity. Vol 10, No.3, pp. 309-326.

3. Abdulraheem, A., M. Zaman, and J.-C. Roegiers (1993). A Finite Element Model for
Ekofisk Field Subsidence, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 19,
pp. 299-310.

4. Zaman, M., J.-C. Roegiers, A. Abdulraheem, and M. Azeemuddin (1994). Pore

collapse in Weakly cemented and porous Rocks, ASME Journal of Energy Resources
Technology, June, Vol. 116, pp. 97-103.

5. Hassan, H.M., Korvin, G., and A. Abdulraheem (2001). Fractal and Genetic Aspects
of Khuff Reservoir Stylolites, Eastern Saudi Arabia. Arabian Journal of Science and
Engineering Journal. 27(2001): 29-56.

6. Korvin, G., Mohiuddin, M.A., A. Abdulraheem (2001). Experimental Investigation

of the Fractal Dimension of the Pore Surface of Sedimentary Rocks under Pressure.
Geophysical Transactions, 44 (2001): 3-19.

7. Mohiuddin, M.A., K. Khan, A. Abdulraheem, A. Al-Majed, and M.R. Awal (2007).

Analysis of wellbore instability in vertical, directional, and horizontal wells using
field data. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 55 (2007). pp. 83-92
8. Olatunji, S.O., A. Selamat, A. Abdulraheem (2011). Modeling the Permeability of
Carbonate Reservoir Using Type-2 Fuzzy logic Systems, Elsevier journal of
Computer in Industry, Special Issue on: Fuzziness in Industry & Applications.
Volume 62, Issue 2, February 2011, Pages 147-163.
9. Anifowose F.and A. Abdulraheem (2011). Fuzzy Logic-Driven and SVM-Driven
Hybrid Computational Intelligence Models Applied to Oil and Gas Reservoir
Characterization. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 3: pp. 505-517, July
2011.
10. Olatunji, S.O., A. Selamat, A. Abdulraheem (2011). Predicting correlations
properties of crude oil systems using type-2 fuzzy logic systems. Expert Systems
with Applications. Volume 38, Issue 9, September 2011, Pages 10911-10922.
11. Olatunji, S.O., Ali Selamat, Abdulazeez Abdulraheem, S. Omatu (2011). Modeling
the correlations of crude oil properties based on sensitivity based linear learning
method. Eng. Appl. of AI 24(4): 686-696. Jun 2011.

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12. Khoukhi, A., M. Oloso, M. Elshafei, A. Abdulraheem, and A. Al-Majed (2011).
Support Vector Regression and Functional networks for Viscosity and Gas/Oil Ratio
Curves Estimation. International Journal of Computational Intelligence and
Applications. Vol. 10, No. 3. Sep. 2011. Pp 269-293.
13. Olatunji, S.O., A. Selamat, A. Abdulraheem (2011). Predicting correlations properties
of crude oil systems using type-2 fuzzy logic systems. Expert Systems with
Applications. Volume 38, Issue 9, September 2011, Pages 10911-10922.
14. M.A. Al-Marhoun, S. Nizamuddin, A.A. Abdul Raheem, S. Shujath Ali, A.A.
Muhammadain. (2012). Prediction of crude oil viscosity curve using artificial
intelligence techniques. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 86-87 (2012)
111–117.
15. Khokhar, Z.H., M.A., Al-Harthi, and A. Abdurraheem (2012). Investigations of
Biosorption Capacity Histories with Temperature and Other Parameters in a Given
Fuzzy Universe of Discourse,” International Journal of Modeling and Optimization,
Vol. 2, No. 3, June 2012. Pp 222—226.
16. Emad A. El-Sebakhy E.A., O. Asparouhov, A. Abdulraheem, A. Al-Majed, D. Wu, K.
Latinski, I Raharja. (2012). Functional networks as a new data mining predictive
paradigm to predict permeability in a carbonate reservoir. Expert Systems with
Applications 39 (2012) 10359–10375.
17. A. Selamat, S. O. Olatunji, and A. Abdulraheem (2012). A Hybrid Model through the
Fusion of Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems and Sensitivity-Based Linear Learning Method
for Modeling PVT Properties of Crude Oil Systems. Advances in Fuzzy Systems, vol.
2012, Article ID 359429, 19 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/359429.

18. Olatunji, S.O., A. Selamat, A. Abdulraheem (2013). Extreme Learning Machines

Based Model for Predicting Permeability of Carbonate Reservoir. International
Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications(JDCTA).
Volume7,Number 1, January 2013.
19. Helmy, T., S. M. Rahman, M. I. Hossain, A. Abdelraheem, Non-linear
Heterogeneous Ensemble Model for Permeability Prediction of Oil Reservoirs. Arab J
Sci Eng (2013) 38:1379–1395.
20. Anifowose F., J. Labadin, A. Abdulraheem, Ensemble Learning Model for
Petroleum Reservoir Characterization: A Case of Feed-Forward Back-Propagation
Neural Networks, In: Trends and Applications in Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7867, 2013, pp 71-82.
21. G. Korvin, Oleschko, K., and A. Abdulraheem (2013). A simple geometric model of
sedimentary rock to connect transfer and acoustic properties. Arabian Journal of
Geosciences. February 2013.

Academic Year (Sep 2013- Aug 14)

22. Ali, S.S., S. Nizamuddin, A. Abdulraheem, M. R. Hassan, M. E. Hossain. (2013).

Hydraulic unit prediction using support vector machine. Journal of Petroleum Science
and Engineering. 110 (2013) pp 243–252.
23. F. Anifowose, J. Labadin and A. Abdulazeez. (2013). “A Least Square-driven
Functional Networks Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Hybrid Model for Efficient Petroleum

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 Reservoir Properties Prediction”, Neural Computing and Applications, Vol. 23, Suppl
1. Pp. 179-180. DOI 10.1007/s00521-012-1298-2, 2013.
24. Ali, S.S., S. Nizamuddin, A. Abdulraheem, M. R. Hassan, M. E. Hossain. (2013).
Hydraulic unit prediction using support vector machine, Journal of Petroleum Science
and Engineering Volume 110, Pages 243-252.
25. Olatunjia, S.O., A. Selamata, A. Abdulraheem. (2014). Improved sensitivity based
linear learning method for permeability prediction of carbonate reservoir using
interval type-2 fuzzy logic system. Applied Soft Computing. Volume 14, Part B,
January 2014, Pages 144–155.
26. Olatunji, S.O., A. Selamat, A. Abdulraheem. (2014). A Hybrid Model through the
Fusion of Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems and Extreme Learning Machines for
Modeling Permeability Prediction. Information Fusion: An International Journal on
Multi-Sensor, Multi-Source Information Fusion, An Elsevier Publication. Vol. 16. Pp.
29-45.
27. Al-Marhoun, M. A., S. S. Ali, A. Abdulraheem, S. Nizamuddin, A. Muhammadain
(2014) Prediction of bubble point pressure from composition of black oils using
artificial neural network, Petroleum Science and Technology, 32:14, 1720-1728.
28. Anifowose, F., J. Labadin and A. Abdulraheem (2014). Non-Linear Feature
Selection-Based Hybrid Computational Intelligence Models for Improved Natural Gas
Reservoir Characterization,” Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 21
(2014) pp. 397-410.
29. Nooruddin, H., F. Anifowose and A. Abdulraheem (2014), "Using Soft Computing
Techniques to Predict Corrected Air Permeability using Thomeer Parameters, Air
Porosity and Grain Density”, Computers and Geosciences, Volume 64, pp. 72-80
(2014).
30. F. Anifowose, S. Adeniye and A. Abdulraheem (2014), "Recent advances in the
application of computational intelligence techniques in oil and gas reservoir
characterization: a comparative study”, Journal of Experimental & Theoretical
Artificial Intelligence, 2014. doi = 10.1080/0952813X.2014.924577.

Academic Year (Sep 2014- Aug 2015)

31. Anifowose, F., J. Labadin, A. Abdulraheem (2015). Improving the prediction of
petroleum reservoir characterization with a stacked generalization ensemble model of
support vector machines. Applied Soft Computing. Volume 26, January 2015, Pages
483–496.
32. Olatunji, S.O., A. Selamat, A. Abdulraheem (2015). Modeling Permeability And PVT
Properties of Oil and Gas Reservoirs using Hybrid Model based on Type-2 Fuzzy
Logic Systems. Neurocomputing. Accepted: Jan., 2015. (IF=2.005).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2015.01.027
33. Anifowose, F., J. Labadin, A. Abdulraheem (2015). Ensemble Model of Non-linear
Feature Selection-Based Extreme Learning Machine for Improved Natural Gas
Reservoir Characterization. Journal of Natural Gas Science & Engineering.
doi:10.1016/j.jngse.2015.02.012.

34. Abdlmutalib, A., O. Abdullatif, G. Korvin, and A. Abdulraheem (2015). The

relationship between lithological characteristics and geomechanical properties of

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 carbonate rocks. Case study: Arab-D Reservoir outcrop approach, Central Saudi
Arabia. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. DOI 10.1007/s12517-015-1957-6.

35. Bageri, B.S., M. Mahmoud, S.H. Al-Mutairi, and A. Abdulraheem (2015). Effect of
Sand Content on the Filter Cake Properties and Removal during Drilling MRC wells
in Sandstone. Journal of Energy Resources Technology. doi:10.1115/1.4032121

36. Abdlmutalib, A, O. Abdullatif, G. Korvin, and A. Abdulraheem. (2015). The

relationship between lithological and geomechanical properties of tight carbonate
rocks from Upper Jubaila and Arab-D Member outcrop analog, Central Saudi Arabia.
Arabian Journal of Geosciences. May 2015. DOI 10.1007/s12517-015-1957-6

Academic Year 2015-16

37. Adebayo, A. R., A. Abdulraheem, S.O. Olatunji. (2015). Artificial Intelligence Based
Estimation of Water Saturation in Complex Reservoir Systems. Journal of Porous
Media. DOI: 10.1615/JPorMedia.v18.i9.60. pp. 893-906. November 2015.

38. W.A. Al-Ameri, A. Abdulraheem, M. Mahmoud. Long-Term Effects of CO2

Sequestration on Rock Mechanical Properties. Journal of Energy Resources
Technology. J. Energy Resour. Technol 138(1), 012201 (Dec 01, 2015). Paper No:
JERT-15-1186; doi: 10.1115/1.4032011.

39. Akande, K., T. O. Owolabi, S.O. Olatunji and A Abdulraheem (2016). A Novel
Homogenous Hybridization Scheme for Performance Improvement of Support Vector
Machines Regression in Reservoir Characterization," Applied Computational
Intelligence and Soft Computing, Article ID 2580169, 10 pages, 2016.
doi:10.1155/2016/2580169. Apr. 2016.

40. Anifowose, F., A. Khoukhi, and A. Abdulraheem (2016). "Investigating the Effect of
Training-Testing Data Stratification on the Performance of Soft Computing
Techniques: An Experimental Study. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical
Artificial Intelligence. June 2016.

41. Mahmoud, M., S. Elkatatny, E. Ramadan, A. Abdulraheem (2016). Development of

Lithology-Based Static Young's Modulus Correlations from Log Data Based on Data
Clustering Technique. doi:10.1016/ J.petrol.2016.04.011. Journal of Petroleum
Science and Engineering 146 · April 2016.

42. Anifowose, F.A., J. Labadin, A. Abdulraheem (2016). Hybrid intelligent systems in

petroleum reservoir characterization and modeling: the journey so far and the
challenges ahead. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology.
doi:10.1007/s13202-016-0257-3. Jun. 2016.

43. Mahmoud, M.A., Ba Geri, B.S., Elkatatny, S., and Al-Mutairi, S.H., 2016. Modeling
of Filter Cake Composition in Maximum Reservoir Contact and Extended Reach
Horizontal Wells. Accepted, Journal of Energy Resources Technology, JERT-16-
1117, Transaction of ASME. (Impact factor 2.0, Q2 ranked journal).

44. Ba Geri, B.S., Mahmoud, M.A., Shawabkeh, R.A., and Abdulraheem, A., 2016.
Evaluation of Barium Sulfate (Barite) Solubility Using Different Chelating Agents –

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 Different Bases - at High Temperature. Accepted, Petroleum Science and
Technology, PST-1509-1292. (Impact factor 0.9, Q3 ranked journal).

45. Ba Geri, B.S., Mahmoud, M.A., Abdulraheem, A, Al-Mutairi, S.H. and Shawabkeh,
R.A., 2016. Single Stage Filter Cake Removal of Barite Weighted Water Based
Drilling Fluid. Accepted, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, PETROL
7690. (Impact factor 1.7, Q2 ranked journal).

46. Ba Geri, B. S., Mahmoud, M. A., and Elkatatny, S., 2016. Impact of Sand Content on
Filter Cake and Invert Emulsion Drilling Fluid Properties in Extended Reach
Horizontal Wells. Accepted, International Journal of Oil, Gas, and Coal Technology,
IJOGCT 132764. (Impact factor 0.7, Q2 ranked journal).

47. Rammay, M.H., A. Abdulraheem (2016). PVT Correlations for Pakistani crude oils
Using Artificial Neural Network. Journal of Petroleum Production Technology. Feb.
2016. DOI 10.1007/s13202-016-0232-z.

Academic Year 2016-17

48. Anifowose, F. S. Adeniye, A. Abdulraheem, A. Al-Shuhail (2016). Integrating

seismic and log data for improved petroleum reservoir properties estimation using
non-linear feature-selection based hybrid computational intelligence models. Journal
of Petroleum Science and Engineering 145. Sep. 2016. pp 230–237.

49. Akande, K. O., T. O. Owolabi, S. O. Olatunji, and A. AbdulRaheem. (2016). A hybrid

particle swarm optimization and support vector regression model for modelling
permeability prediction of hydrocarbon reservoir. Journal of Petroleum Science and
Engineering. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2016.11.033. Nov. 2016.

50. Anifowose, F.A., J. Labadin, and A. Abdulraheem (2017). Ensemble machine

learning: An untapped modeling paradigm for petroleum reservoir characterization.
Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 151 (2017); pp. 480-487.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2017.01.024. Mar 2017.

51. Elkatatny, S., M. Mahmoud, I. Mohamed, A. Abdulraheem (2017). Development of a

new correlan to determine the static Young’s modulus. Journal of Petroleum
Exploration and Production Technology. doi:10.1007/s13202-017-0316-4. Online on
Jan 2017.

52. Elkatatny, S., Mahmoud, M., Z. Tariq, A. Abdulraheem.(2017) New insights into the
prediction of heterogeneous carbonate reservoir permeability from well logs using
artificial intelligence network. Neural Computing & Applications (2017).
doi:10.1007/s00521-017-2850-x. Online on Jan, 2017.

53. Bageri, B.S., M.A. Mahmoud, R.A. Shawabkeh, S. H. Al-Mutairi, A. Abdulraheem.

(2017). Toward a Complete Removal of Barite (Barium Sulfate BaSO4BaSO4) Scale
Using Chelating Agents and Catalysts. Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering.
2017) 42: 1667. doi:10.1007/s13369-017-2417-2. Feb 2017.
54. Elkatatny, S.M., Mahmoud, M.A., Moahmed, I., and Abdulraheem, A. 2017.
Development of A New Correlation to Determine the Static Young’s Modulus”,
Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, Online. Jan 2017.

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 55. Bageri, B., Mahmoud, M.A., Abdulraheem, A., Al-Mutairi, S.H., Elkatatny, S.M.,
Shawabkeh, R.A. 2017. Single Stage Filter Cake Removal of Barite Weighted Water
Based Drilling Fluid”, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 149(20): 476–
484. Jan 2017.
56. Abdulhameed, A., Elkatatny, S.M., Mahmoud, M.A., Aburesh, M., Abdulraheem,
A., and Ali, A. 2017. Determination of the total organic carbon (TOC) based on
conventional well logs using artificial neural network. International Journal of Coal
Geology, 179(15 June): pp. 72-80.
57. Ba geri, B., M. Mahmoud, R. Shawabkeh, S. Al-Mutairi, and A. Abdulraheem (2017).
Toward a Complete Removal of Barite (Barium Sulfate BaSO4) Scale Using
Chelating Agents and Catalysts. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. 42.
10.1007/s13369-017-2417-2. April 2017, Volume 42, Issue 4, pp 1667–1674.

Journal Papers under Review:

1. Olatunji, S.O., A. Selamat, A. Abdulraheem. Applying Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems

And Sentivity Based Linear Learning Method To Model PVT Properties of crude oil
systems, Elsevier Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering (Under 2nd
Revision as of Mar 2015).
2. S.O. Olatunji, A. Selamat, A. Abdulraheem. Prediction Model of Permeability from
Oil Well Logs Using Type-2 Fuzzy Inference Systems (Under review by Information
Sciences Journal – Mar 2015; no reply from the reviewer yet)
3. S.O. Olatunji, A. Selamat, A. Abdulraheem. Modeling PVT Properties of Crude Oil
Systems Based on Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems and Sensitivity Based Linear
Learning Method (Submitted to Elsevier journal of applied soft computing)
4. F. Adosonai, A. Khoukhi, A. Abdulraheem, “Effect Of Dataset Division On
Soft Computing Techniques: A Case Study of Porosity And Permeability
Prediction, Submitted, Computers and Geo-Sciences.
5. "A Novel Homogenous Hybridization Scheme for Performance Improvement of Support
Vector Machines Regression in Reservoir Characterization" by Kabiru Akande, Taoreed
Owolabi, Sunday Olusanya Olatunji and A Abdulraheem. Applied Computational
Intelligence and Soft Computing. Apr 2016.
6.

Conference Proceedings / Presentations:

1. Faruque, M. O., M. Zaman, and A. Abdulraheem (1991). Constitutive Model for

Cohesionless Soil. Proc., Third International Conference for Constitutive Laws for
Engineering Materials: Theory and Application, Tucson, AZ, pp. 123-127, Jan. 7-
12.

2. Roegiers, J.-C., M. Azeemuddin, M.M. Zaman, and A. Abdulraheem (1991). A

Constitutive Model for Characterizing Dilatancy in Rocks. Rock Mechanics as a

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 Multidisciplinary Science, J.-C. Roegiers, ed., Proc., 32nd US Symposium on Rock
Mechanics, pp. 531-538, July 10-12.

3. Zaman, M., J.-C. Roegiers, A. Abdulraheem, and M. Azeemuddin (1992). Pore

collapse in Weakly cemented and porous Rocks. Presented at the Energy
Technology Conference and Exposition held in Houston, TX, Composite Material
Technology, ASME 1992, PD-Vol. 45, Editors: Hui, D., Kozik, T.J., Ochoa, O.O.,
pp. 123-132.

4. Abdulraheem, A., J.-C. Roegiers, and M. Zaman (1992). Mechanics of Pore

Collapse and Compaction in Weak Porous Rocks. Presented at the 33rd US
Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Santa Fe, NM, USA.

5. Abdulraheem, A., M. Zaman, and J.-C. Roegiers (1993). A FE Model for Ekofisk
Field Subsidence. Presented at the Energy Technology Conference and Exposition
held in Houston, TX, Composite Material Technology 1993, PD-Vol. 45, Editors:
Hui, D., Kozik, T.J., Ochoa, O.O., pp. 103-110.

6. Abdulraheem, A., M. Zaman, and J.-C. Roegiers (1993). Numerical Simulation of

a Compacting Reservoir. Presented at the 34th US Symposium on Rock Mechanics,
held in Madison, Wisconsin, June 1993.

7. Zaman, M., M.O. Faruque, and A. Abdulraheem (1993). Characterization of

Volumetric Response in Sands. Presented in the Fourth International Symposium on
Plasticity and Its Current Applications.

8. Harouaka, A.S., B. Mtawaa, A. Al-Majed, A. Abdulraheem, and T. Klimentos

(1995). Multistage triaxial testing of actual reservoir cores under simulated reservoir
conditions, International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysis, September,
San Francisco, CA.

9. Abdulraheem, A., M. Zaman, and J.-C. Roegiers (1995). End effects and Dilatancy
in Rock Compression Testing. Proc., The Fourth Saudi Engineering Conference,
Nov. 5-8, Vol. 2, pp. 263-269.

10. Abdulraheem, A., M.R. Awal, and S. Taher (1997). A New Numerical Simulation
Model and Upscaling Technique for Scaled Model Sand Production. Proc., 10th
Middle East Oil Show & Conference, 15-18th March, Bahrain, Vol. 2, pp. 99-109.

12. Korvin, G., H.M. Hassan, N.I. Khondakar and A. Abdulraheem (1998). Stylolites.
5th Meeting of the Saudi Society for Earth Sciences, Dhahran, KSA.

13. Abdulraheem, A., M. A. Mohiuddin, G. Korvin, M. R. Awal, K. Khan, M. S.

Khan, and A. Al-Ghamdi (1999). Parametric Study of Ultrasonic Velocity Using
Reservoir Cores for Enhancing Seismic Signatures For Improved Reserves
Definition. 1999 SPE Technical Symposium. Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, KSA.

14. Awal, M.R., A. Abdulraheem, M. S. Khan, B. Mtawaa, and A. Al-Majed (1999).

On the Importance Rock Mechanics Properties and In-situ Stress Field in the Khuff
Formations for Gas Field Development. SPE Technical Symposium. Saudi Aramco,
Dhahran, KSA.

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15. Mohiuddin, M.A., G. Korvin, A. Abdulraheem, M.R.Awal, K. Khan, and M.S.
Khan (2000). From Rock Physics to Rock Texture: A case study of Saudi Arabian
reservoir rocks. Paper presented at GEO 2000: 4th Middle Geosciences Conference
and Exhibition, March 27-29, Bahrain.

16. Mohiuddin, M. A., G. Korvin, A. Abdulraheem, M. R. Awal, K. Khan, M. S.

Khan, and H. M. Hassan (2000). Stress-Dependent Porosity and Permeability of a
Suit of Samples from Saudi Arabian Sandstone and Limestone Reservoirs. Paper
accepted for International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts, October 18-
22, Dubai.

17. Awal, M.R., G. Korbin, M.A. Mohiuddin, A. Abdulraheem, K.

Khan, and M. S. Khan (2000). Ultrasonic wave attenuation in cores: A new
approach to enhance accuracy, reproducibility, and data processing. Paper accepted
for International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts, October 18-22,
Dubai.

18. Mohiuddin, M.A., M.R.Awal, A.Abdulraheem, and K.Khan (2001). A New

Diagnostic Approach to Identify the Causes of Borehole Instability Problems in an
Offshore Arabian Field. Paper SPE 68095 to be presented at 2001 SPE Middle East
Oil Show held in Bahrain,17–20 March 2001.

19. Awal, M.R., M.S. Khan, M.A.Mohiuddin, A.Abdulraheem and M.Azeemuddin

(2001). A New Approach to Borehole Trajectory Optimisation for Increased Hole
Stability. Paper SPE 68092 to be presented at 2001 SPE Middle East Oil Show held
in Bahrain,17–20 March 2001.

20. Awal, M.R., M.Azeemuddin, M.S.Khan, A.Abdulraheem, and M.A.Mohiuddin

(2001). A More Realistic Sand Production Prediction Using Pore Collapse Theory.
Paper to be presented at the US Rock Mechanics Symposium 'DC Rocks 2001' to be
held in Washington DC. July 7-10, 2001.

21. Al-Shayea, N.A., K. Khan, and A. Abdulraheem (2001). Fracture Toughness vs.
Tensile Strength for Reservoir Rocks from Saudi Arabia. The 2001 ISRM
sponsored international symposium - 2nd Asian rock mechanics symposium Sept 11-
14, 2001, Beijing, China.

22. Korvin, G., Mohiuddin, M.A., A. Abdulraheem (2001). Changes in the Fractal
Dimension of the Pore Surface of Sedimentary Rocks under Pressure. Presented at
the First Saudi Science Conference, April 2000 at KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

23. Mohiuddin, M. A., G. Korvin, A. Abdulraheem and K. Khan (2001). Attenuation

Characteristics of Saudi Arabian Reservoir Sandstone and Limestone Cores.
Presented at the International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts,
September 17 – 19, Edinburgh, U. K.

24. M. Hussain, S.A. Siddique, G. Korvin and A. Abdulrahim. (2002). Porosity

prediction of Unayzah reservoir from well log data using backpropagation neural
network. AAPG International. Conference, Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 27-30, 2002.

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25. M. A. Mohiuddin, A. Abdulraheem, D. Al-Qudaihy, M. R. Awal, and K. Khan.
(2003). Wellbore Instability in a Saudi Arabian Sandstone Reservoir: Causes and
Solutions. Paper No. U379. Presented at 5th International Petroleum Conference
and Exhibition. New Delhi, India. Jan 9-12, 2003.

26. Khan, K., V. Aurifullah, M.A. Mohiuddin, A. Abdulraheem. (2005). Dependence

of Ultrasonic Velocities and Dynamic Elastic Rock Properties on Stress and
Saturation Changes. 2005 International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts.
Toronto, Canada. 21-25 August 2005.

27. Mohiuddin, M.A., K. Khan, A. Abdulraheem, A. Al-Majed, and V. Aurifullah.

(2005). Field Based Criteria For The Design of Safe Mud Weight Window. SPE
Saudi Arabia 2005 Technical Symposium. Dhahran, KSA. May 14-16, 2005.

28. Mohiuddin, M.A., K. Khan, A. Abdulraheem, A. Al-Majed, and M. R. Awal.

(2005). Analysis of Wellbore Instability in Horizontal Wells Using Field Data.
Kuwait Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition, Kuwait. Mar/Apr. 2005.

29. A. Abdulraheem, E. Sabakhi, M. Ahmed, A. Vantala, I. Raharja, and G. Korvin

(2007). Estimation of Permeability from Wireline Logs in a Middle Eastern
Carbonate Reservoir Using Fuzzy Logic. SPE 105350. To be presented at the 15th
SPE Middle East Oil & Gas Show and Conference held in Bahrain International
Exhibition Centre, Kingdom of Bahrain, 11–14 March 2007.

30. E. El-Sebakhy, A. Abdulraheem, M. Ahmed, A. Al-Majed, P. Raharja, F. Azzedin;

and T. Sheltami (2007). Functional Network as a Novel Approach for Prediction of
Permeability in a Carbonate Reservoir. Presented at 10th International Conference
on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks. Thessaloniki, Hellas. 29-31
August 2007.

31. E. A. El-Sebakhy, A. Abdulraheem, and M. Ahmed (2007). Forecasting PVT

Correlations of Crude Oil Systems Using Type1 Fuzzy Logic Inference Systems. 3rd
Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07). Pune, India.

32. E. El-Sebakhy, A. Abdulraheem, A. Al-Majed, T. Sheltami, M. Ahmed, I. Raharja,

and Y. Khaeruzzaman (2008). Data Mining for Predicting Permeability in
Carbonate formation based on Support Vector Machines. Presented at The Saudi
Meeting on Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production Technologies, Riyadh,
January 6-8, 2008.

33. A. Abdulraheem, M. Ahmed, E. Sebakhy, M.T. Parvez (2009). Estimation of

Permeability Profile in Carbonate Reservoirs using Artificial Neural Networks and
Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference Systems. ICMSAO’09. Third International
Conference On Modeling, Simulation, And Applied Optimization. January 20 – 22,
2009. UAE.

34. A. Abdulraheem, M. Ahmed, and A. Vantala, and T. Parvez (2009). Prediction of

Rock Mechanical Parameters for Hydrocarbon Reservoirs Using Different Artificial
Intelligence Techniques. SPE Technical Symposium. Khobar, Saudi Arabia. May 9-
11, 2009.

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35. Anifowose, F. and A. Abdulraheem (2010). Prediction of Porosity and
Permeability of Oil and Gas Reservoirs Using Hybrid Computational Intelligence
Models. Presented at SPE North Africa Technical Conference and Exhibition,
Cairo, Egypt. Feb 14-17, 2010.

36. El-Sebakhy, E.A., O. Asparouhov, A. Abdulraheem, A. Al-Majed, D. Wu, and K.

Latinski. (2010). Data Mining in Identifying Carbonate Litho-Facies From Well
Logs Based on Extreme Learning and Support Vector Machines. SPE 738973. 9th
GEO Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibiton held in Bahrain
International Exhibition Centre, Kingdom of Bahrain, 7–10 March 2010.

37. El-Sebakhy, E.A., O. Asparouhov, A. Abdulraheem, A. Al-Majed, D. Wu, K.

Latinski, and W. Spires. (2010). On Utilizing Functional Networks Computational
Intelligence in Forecasting Rock Mechanical Parameters for Hydrocarbon
Reservoirs: Methodology and Comparative Studies. SPE 739016. 9th GEO Middle
East Geosciences Conference and Exhibiton held in Bahrain International
Exhibition Centre, Kingdom of Bahrain, 7–10 March 2010.

38. Khokar, Z.H, S.Z. Shuja, and A. Abdulraheem (2010). An Artificial Intelligence
Approach to Investigate Hot and Cold Fluid in Pipelines Scale Up. Symposium on
Industrial Systems and Control. May 10-11, 2010. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

39. Elshafei, M., A. Khoukhi, A. Khoukhi, A. Abdulraheem (2010). Neural Network

Aided Design of Oil Production Units. 10th International Conference on
Information Science, Signal Processing and Their Applications (ISSPA 2010). May
10-13. Kaula Lampur. Malaysia.

40. Olatunji, S.O., A. Selamat, and A. Abdulraheem (2010). Modeling Permeability

Prediction Using Extreme Learning Machine. 4th Asia International Conference on
Mathematical/Analytical Modelling and Computer Simulation, AMS2010, Kota-
Kinabalu, Malaysia. May 26, 2010

41. Olatunji, S.O., A. Selamat, and A. Abdulraheem (2010). Prediction Model

of Reservoir Fluids Properties Using Sensitivity Based Linear Learning Method.
Paper presented in the International Conference on Multimedia Computing and
Information Technology (MCIT-2010) in Sharjah, March 2 -4 2010, UAE.

42. A.Khoukhi, M. Oloso, A. Abdulraheem, M. El-Shafei: “Optimized Adaptive Neural

Networks for Viscosity and Gas/oil Ratio Curves Prediction”, IASTED, MS 2010,
Banff, July 14-17, 2010

43. Anifowose, F. and A. AbdulRaheem (2010). “A Fusion of Functional Networks

and Type-2 Fuzzy Logic for the Characterization of Oil and Gas Reservoirs”. Paper
E1387 Presented at the 2010 International Conference on Electronics and
Information Engineering (ICEIE 2010), Kyoto, Japan, August 1 - 3, 2010. (Ref:
Fatai-Azeez-ICEIE).

44. Anifowose, F. and A. AbdulRaheem (2010). “How Small is a “Small” Data”. 2nd
Saudi Conference on Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Technologies (OGEP
2010), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 18-20 December, 2010. (Ref: Fatai-Azeez-OGEP).

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45. Anifowose, F. and A. AbdulRaheem (2010). “'A Functional Networks-Type-2
Fuzzy Logic Hybrid Model for the Prediction of Porosity and Permeability of Oil
and Gas Reservoirs”. Paper #1569334237, 2nd International Conference on
Computational Intelligence, Modeling and Simulation (CIMSim 2010), Bali,
September 28 - 30, 2010. (Ref: Fatai-Azeez-CIMSim).

46. Sunday Olusanya Olatunji, Ali Selamat and A. Abdulraheem (2010). “Modeling
PVT Properties of Crude Oil Systems Using Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems”,
International conference on computational collective intelligence (ICCCI-2010) ,
Kaohsiung, Taiwan. http://bit.kuas.edu.tw/~iccci10/

47. Khokar, Z.H., Al-Harthi, M.A., and A. Abdulraheem. (2010). Investigations of

Biosorption Capacity Histories with Temperature and Other Parameters in a Given
Fuzzy Universe of Discourse. Presented at 2010 International Conference on
Modeling, Simulation, and Control ICMSC, Nov. 2-4, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.

48. Amar Khoukhi, Munirdine Oloso, Moustafa Elshaei and Abdulazeez Abdulraheem
(2011). Viscosity And Gas/Oil Ratio Curves Estimation Using Advances To Neural
Networks, WoSSPA11, May 09-11 2011, Tipaza, Algeria.

49. F. Adosonai, A. Khoukhi, A. Abdulraheem (2011). Impact of Training/Testing

Stratification percentage on performance of soft computing techniques, The
permeability prediction case study. Fifth Global Conference on Power Control and
Optimization Fifth Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization PCO’11,
Dubai June 1- 3, 2011

50. Anifowose Fatai, Helmy Tarek and A. Abdulraheem (2011). Functional Networks
as a Best-Model Selector in Computational Intelligence Hybrid Models for
Petroleum Reservoir Characterization”, Proceedings of the 5th Global Conference
on Power Control and Optimization, Dubai, UAE, 1-3 June, 2011.

51. Arfaj M.K., A. Abdulraheem, A. Al-Majed, E. Hossain. (2012). Estimating Layers

Deliverability in Multi-layered Gas Reservoirs Using Artificial Intelligence. SPE
160893. SPE Technical Symposium and Exhibition, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, 8-11
April, 2012.

52. Arfaj M.K., A. Abdulraheem, and Y. R. Busaleh (2012). Estimating Dewpoint

Pressure Using Artificial Intelligence. SPE 160919. Presented at SPE Saudi Arabia
section Young Professionals Technical Symposium held in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia,
19—21 March 2012.

53. M. Attia, M.A. Mahmoud, A. Abdulraheem, and S.A. Al-Neaim (2013). Evaluation
of the Pressure Drop due to Multi Phase Flow in Horizontal Pipes Using Fuzzy
Logic and Neural Networks. 18th Middle East Oil & Gas Show and Conference
(MEOS), Mar 10 - 13, 2013 2013, Bahrain International Exhibition Centre,
Manama, Bahrain

54. Nooruddin, H.A., F. Anifowose, and A. Abdulraheem (2013). Applying Artificial

Intelligence Techniques to Develop Permeability Predictive Models using Mercury
Injection Capillary-Pressure Data. SPE Saudi Arabia section Annual Technical
Symposium and Exhibition, Khobar, Saudi Arabia. 19-22 May 2013.

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55. Abdulrauf R. Adebayo, A. Abdulraheem, and A. T. Al-Shammari (2013). Promises
of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Reducing Errors in Complex Flow and
Pressure Losses Calculations in Multiphase Fluid Flow in Oil Wells. Nigeria
Annual International Conference and Exhibition, 30 July - 1 August 2013, Lagos,
Nigeria.

56. Anifowose, F.A., A. Abdulraheem, A. Al-Shuhail (2013). Improved Permeability

Prediction from Seismic and Log Data Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques.
SPE 164465. Presented at the SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference,
Manama, Bahrain. March 10-13.

57. Anifowose, F., J. Labadin, and A. Abdulraheem (2013). Ensemble Model of

artificial neural networks with randomized number of hidden neurons. In
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Technology in Asia.
July 2-4, 2013. pp. 1-5. Kuching, Malaysia: IEEEXplore.

58. Ali, S.S., M. E. Hossain, M. R. Hassan, and A. Abdulraheem (2013). SPE164747.

Hydraulic Unit estimation from predicted permeability and porosity using artificial
intelligence techniques. North Africa Technical Conference & Exhibition held in
Cairo, Egypt, 15–17 April 2013

Academic Year (Sep 2013- Aug 14)

59. Anifowose, F., J. Labadin, and A. Abdulraheem. (2013)."Predicting Petroleum

Reservoir Properties from Downhole Sensor Data using an Ensemble Model of
Neural Network", In Proceedings of Workshop on Machine Learning for Sensory
Data Analysis (MLSDA’13), December 3, 2013, Dunedin, New Zealand, ACM
Digital Library, pp. 27-34. Doi: 10.1145/2542652.2542654.

60. Anifowose F., T. Helmy, and A. Abdulraheem (2013). Functional Networks as a

Best-Model Selector in Computational Intelligence Hybrid Models for Petroleum
Reservoir Characterization. In: Ivan Zelinka, Zeya Oo and Nader Barsoum (Eds.)
Proceedings of the 7th Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization,
Volume number: 2008, pp. 52 - 59, Prague (Czech Republic) and Yangon
(Myanmar), 27–28 August and 2-3 December 2013.

61. Talib, M., M. Elshafei, A. Khoukhi, A. Saif, and A. Abdulraheem. (2014).

Modeling and control of quad-rotor Directional Steering System. Proceedings: 2014
IEEE International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and
Applications (INISTA). June 23-25, 2014. pp. 76-83; Alberobello, Italy.

Academic Year (Sep 2014- Aug 15)

62. Al-Nutaifi, A.M., A. Abdulraheem, K. Khan (2014). Wellbore Instability Analysis

for Highly Fractured Carbonate Gas Reservoir from Geomechanics Prospective,
Saudi Arabia Case Study. Internation Petroleum Technology Conference. Kuala
Lampur, Malaysia. 10-12 December 2014.

63. Rammay, M.H. and A. Abdulraheem (2014). Automated History Matching Using
Combination of Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy System (ANFIS) and Differential Evolution
Algorithm. SPE 172992. SPE Large Scale Computing and Big Data Challenges in

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 Reservoir Simulation Conference and Exhibition, 15-17 September, Istanbul,
Turkey

64. Al-Ameri, W.A., A. Abdulraheem, M. Mahmoud, O. Abdullatif, and A.R. Adebayo

(2014). Effect of CO2 Sequestration Period on the Mechanical Properties of
Carbonate Aquifers. SPE 171702. the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum
Exhibition and Conference held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, 10–13 November 2014.

65. Al-Arfaj, M.K., M. Amanullah, A.S. Sultan, M.E. Hossain, and A. Abdulraheem
(2014). Chemical and Mechanical Aspects of Wellbore Stability in Shale
Formations: A Literature Review. Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition
and Conference, 10-13 November, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

66. Alarifi, S., gS. Al-Nuaim, A. Abdulraheem. (2015). Productivity Index Prediction
for Oil Horizontal Wells Using different Artificial Intelligence Techniques. SPE
172729. SPE Middle East Oil & Gas Show and Conference, 8-11 March, Manama,
Bahrain.

67. Bageri, B.S., A. Abdulraheem, F.A. Anifowose (2015). Artificial Intelligence Based
Estimation of Water Saturation Using Electrical Measurements Data in a Carbonate
Reservoir. SPE 172564. SPE Middle East Oil & Gas Show and Conference, 8-11
March, Manama, Bahrain.

68. Alameri, W.A., A. Abdulraheem, M. Mahmoud, O. Abdullatif, A. Adebayo, (2015).

Aquifer Selection for CO2 Sequestration Based on Mechanical Properties
Evaluation. SPE 172526. SPE Middle East Oil & Gas Show and Conference, 8-11
March, Manama, Bahrain.

69. Al-Ajmi, M. D., A. Abdulraheem, A. T. Mishkhes, M. J. Al-Shammari (2015).

Profiling Downhole Casing Integrity Using Artificial Intelligence. 2015 SPE
Digital Energy Conference and Exhibition held inthe Woodlands, Texas, USA. 3–5
March. 2015.

70. Harbi, W., A. Abdulraheem, and F. Anifowose. (2015). An Artificial Intelligence

Approach in Predicting Water Saturation. Annual Technical Symposium &
Exhibition to be held in Al-Khobar Saudi Arabia, 20-23 April 2015.

71. Al-Hussain, A.M, M.E. Hossain, A. Abdulraheem, and R. Gajbhiye (2015). An

Integrated Approach for Downhole Leak Detection. SPE 177996. SPE Saudi
Arabia Section Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 21-23 April, Al-
Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

72. Olatunji, S.O., A. Selamat, and A. Abdulraheem. (2015). Harnessing the Power of
Type-2 Fuzzy Logic System in the Prediction of Reservoir Properties. SPE 178005.
SPE Saudi Arabia Section Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 21-23
April, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

73. Ayadiuno, C.B., A. Ali, A. Bakhorji, S.S. Ali, S. Nizamuddin, A. Abdulraheem,

and H. Eltom. (2015). The Effects of Saturation and Pore Structure on Acoustic
Properties of Carbonate Rocks. 77th EAGE Conference & Exhibition. June 2015,
Madrid, Spain .

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74. Bageri, B.S., M.A. Mahmoud, A.S. Sultan, S.H. Al-Mutairi, A. Abdulraheem
(2015). Effect of the Drilled Cuttings on Filter Cake Sealing Properties and Internal
Invasion Depth in MRC Wells. SPE Kuwait Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 11-
14 October, Mishref, Kuwait. SPE-175168-MS. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/175168-
MS.

75. Nizamuddin, S. , M.E. Hossain, A. Abdulraheem, M.R. Hassan. (2016).

Permeability Prediction Based on Leaky-Capillary-Tubes Using Genetic Algorithm.
SPE-182822-MS. SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and
Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/182822-
MS

Academic Year (Sep 2016- Aug 17)

76. A. Mustafa, A. Sahin, A. Abdulraheem, G. Krovin. (2016). Lithofacies Controls on

Mechanical Properties and Brittleness in Qusaiba Shale, Rub’ Al-Khali Basin, Saudi
Arabia. ADIPEC. Nov 13-16. 2016.

77. Elhaj, M. A., F. Anifowose, A. Abdulraheem, M.E. Hossain. Prediction of Choke

Size for Single Gas Flow using Artificial Intelligence Techniques. International
Conference on Petroleum Engineering. Dec. 2016 (ICPE-2016), BUET, Dhaka,
Bangladesh.

78. Tariq, Z., Al-Nuaim, S., Abdulraheem, A., & Khan, M. R. (2016, November 21).
New Methodology to Quantify Productivity of Vertical Wells in Naturally Fractured
Solution Gas Drive Reservoirs with Dual Porosity and Dual Permeability. Society
of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/185314-MS

79. Tariq, Z., S. Elkatatny, M. Mahmoud, and A. Abdulraheem (2016). A Holistic

Approach to Develop New Rigorous Empirical Correlation for Static Young’s
Modulus. SPE 183545. ADIPEC. Nov 13-16. 2016.

80. Tariq, Z., S. Elkatatny, M. Mahmoud, and A. Abdulraheem. (2016). A New

Artificial Intelligence Based Empirical Correlation to Predict Sonic Travel Time.
International Petroleum Technology Conference, 14-16 November, Bangkok,
Thailand. http://dx.doi.org/10.2523/IPTC-19005-MS

81. Tariq, Z., S. Al-Nuaim, A. Abdulraheem. (2016). New Methodology to Quantify

Productivity of Vertical Wells in Naturally Fractured Solution Gas Drive Reservoirs
with Dual Porosity and Dual Permeability. SPE-MS. SPE/PAPG Annual Technical
Conference held in Islamabad, Pakistan, 21-23rd November 2016.

82. Elkatatny, S.M., Tariq, Z., and Mahmoud, M.A., Abdulraheem, A. Abdelwahab,
A.Z. Woldeamanuel, M., ., and Mohamed, I. M. 2017. An Artificial Intelligent
Approach to Predict Static Poisson's Ratio. Paper ARMA 17-771 presented at the
51st US Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium held in San Francisco,
California, USA, 25-28 June.

83. Tariq, Z., Elkatatny, S.M., and Mahmoud, M.A., Abdulraheem, A. Abdelwahab,
A.Z. and Woldeamanuel, M. 2017. Estimation of Rock Mechanical Parameters
using Artificial Intelligence Tools. Paper ARMA 17-301 presented at the 51st US

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 Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium held in San Francisco, California,
USA, 25-28 June.

84. Tariq, Z., Elkatatny, S.M. and Mahmoud, M.A., Abdulraheem, A. Abdelwahab,
A.Z., Woldeamanuel, M., and Mohamed, I. M. 2017. Development of New
Correlation for Unconfined Compressive Strength for Carbonate Reservoir Using
Artificial Intelligence Techniques. Paper ARMA 17-428 presented at the 51st US
Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium held in San Francisco, California,
USA, 25-28 June.

85. Tariq, Z., Elkatatny, S.M., Mahmoud, M., Abdulwahab Z., A., and Abdulraheem, A.
2017. A New Technique to Develop Rock Strength Correlation Using Artificial
Intelligence Tools. Paper SPE 186062 to be presented at the SPE Reservoir
Characterization and Simulation Conference and Exhibition. Abu Dhabi, UAE, 8-10
May.

86. Dossary, M., Elkatatny, S.M., Hamid, O., Mahmoud, M.A., and Abdulraheem, A.
2017. Reservoir Geomechanics in Tight Sandstone Reservoir. Paper SPE presented
at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition,
Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24-27 April.

87. Tariq, A., Elkatatny, S. A., Mahmoud, M.A., Zaki, A., Abdulraheem, A. 2017. A
New Approach to Predict Failure Parameters of Carbonate Rocks using Artificial
Intelligence Tools. Paper SPE presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24-27
April.

88. Moussa, T., Elkatatny, S.M., Mahmoud, M.A., and Abdulraheem, A. 2017. A
Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Method to Predict Gas Solubility and Bubble Point
Pressure”, Paper SPE presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual
Technical Symposium and Exhibition, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24-27 April.

89. Abdulhameed, A., Elkatatny, S.M., Mahmoud, M.A., Abdulraheem, A., and
Aburesh, M. 2017. New Technique to Determine the Total Organic Carbon Based
on Well Logs Using Artificial Neural Network (White Box)” Paper SPE presented
at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition,
Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24-27 April.

90. Elkatatny, S., R. Alloush, Z. Tariq, M. Mahmoud, and A. Abdulraheem. 2017.

Development of a New Correlation for Bubble Point Pressure in Oil Reservoirs
Using Artificial IntelligenceTechnique. Paper SPE-KSA 8266 presented at the SPE
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, Dammam,
Saudi Arabia, 24-27 April.

91. Bageri, A.S., R. Gajbhiye, A. Abdulraheem (2017). Evaluating the Effect of Surface
Tension on Two-Phase Flow in Horizontal Pipes. SPE-SPE 8403-MS. SPE
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in
Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27April 2017.

Academic Year (Sep 2017- Aug 18)

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92. Abdulhameed, A., Elkatatny, S.M., Mahmoud, M.A., and Abdulraheem, A. 2017.
A New Empirical Equation for Estimating Oil Recovery Factor Based on Artificial
Neural Network Technique. SPE-187621 presented at the 3rd Kuwait Oil & Gas
Show and Conference to be held 15 – 18 October, 2017 at Kuwait International Fair
in Kuwait.

93. Alloush, R., Elkatatny. S.M., Mohamed, M., Abdulraheem, A. 2017. Estimation of
Geomechanical Failure Parameters from Well Logs Using Artificial Intelligence
Techniques. SPE-187625 presented at the 3rd Kuwait Oil & Gas Show and
Conference to be held 15 – 18 October, at Kuwait International Fair in Kuwait.

94. Hassan, A., Elkatatny. S.M., and Abdulraheem, A. 2017. New Approach to
Quantify Productivity of Fishbone Multilateral Well. Paper SPE 187458 to be
presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) to be
held 09 – 11 October, 2017 in San Antonio, TX, USA.

95.

Under review
1) Brittleness Estimation and Anisotropy Analysis of the Lower Silurian Qusaiba
Shale, Saudi Arabia. Accepted in 4th International Conference on Integrated Petroleum
Engineering and Geosciences, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ICIPEG 2016 (Article # 1570256969).

2) Multi-Scale Geological Characterization of the Lower Silurian Qusaiba Shale,

Rub’ Al-Khali Basin, Saudi Arabia. Published in AAPG-SEG International Conference
and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia, September, 2015, Article # 90217, (doi: 10.1190/ice2015-
2211235).

Technical Presentations:
1. A Review of Analytical and Semi-Analytical Methods for Prediction of Sand
Production. A. Abdurraheem, M.R. Awal & M. Ahmad, Workshop on the Role of
Geomechanics in Solving Upstream Challenges. Organized by EXPEC-ARC, Saudi
Aramco, May 26-27, Le gulf Meridien, Al-Khobar.

2 TECHNICAL NOTES

1. Abdulraheem, A., M. Zaman, and J.-C. Roegiers (1993). Numerical Simulation

of a Compacting Reservoir, International Journal of Rock Mechanics, Mining
Sciences and Geomechanics Abstracts, Vol. 30, No. 7, pp. 1299-1302.

3 PATENTS

1. Evolutionary Optimized Hybrid Computational Intelligence Model for the Prediction

of Gas Components, Patent 8700549B2, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO),
April 15, 2014. Issued to M.I. Hossain, T.A.H. El-Basuny, A. Abdulraheem, M. El-
Shafei, L. Ghouti, A. Khoukhi, S.M. Rahman, M.R. Hassan.

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 2. Ba Geri, B., Mahmoud, M.A., Shawabkeh, R.A., and Abdulraheem, A. 2015. Single
and Multi-Stage Removal of Barite Scale and Barite Filter Cake. US 450231, Filed.

3. A novel enseble of HMM based Co-evolutionary ANN model for Permeability

Prediction of Oil Reservoirs… Patent filed..Nov 2015

4 BOOKS/BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Zaman, M., A. Abdulraheem, and J.-C. Roegiers (1995). Reservoir Compaction

and Surface Subsidence in the North Sea Ekofisk Field. Chapter 8 in Subsidence
due to Fluid Withdrawal. Eds.: G.V. Chilingarian, E.C. Donaldson, and T.F. Yen.
Elsevier Science Publishers, 1995, pp. 397-447.

2. S.O. Olatunji, A. Selamat, and A. Abdulraheem (2010). Modeling PVT

Properties of Crude Oil Systems Using Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems,
Computational Collective Intelligence-Technologies and Applications, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, Springer 2010, Volume 6421/2010, 499-508, DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-16693-8_51.

3. Ali Selamat, S. O. Olatunji, Abdul Azeez Abdul Raheem (2012). Modeling PVT
Properties of Crude Oil Systems Based on Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Approach and
Sensitivity Based Linear Learning Method, Computational Collective
Intelligence. Technologies and Applications Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 7653, 2012, pp 145-155.

4. Anifowose, F., J. Labadin and A. Abdulraheem, Towards an Improved Ensemble

Learning Model of Artificial Neural Networks: Lessons Learned on using
Randomized Numbers of Hidden Neurons, In S. Alam, Y.S. Koh, G. Dobbie
(Eds.) Biologically-Inspired Techniques for Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining, IGI Global, USA. Published in June 2014.

5 LIST OF SUPERVISED M.S. OR Ph.D. THESES: TITLES AND ABSTRACTS

M.S. Thesis

1. Fracture Toughness Investigation of an Indigenous Limestone Rock Formation.

Mr. Khaqan Khan. Civil Engineering Department, KFUPM. 1998. - Member

2. Reservoir Quality of the Unayzah Formation in Waqr, Tinat, and Haradh Fields.
Mr. Aamir Siddiqui. Department of Earth Sciences, KFUPM. 2002. - Member

3. Khafji Reservoir Mechanical Properties Calibration and In-Situ Stress Modeling,

Zuluf Field, Eastern Saudi Arabia. Mr. Waleed Mohamed El Hassan. Department
of Earth Sciences, KFUPM. 2002. - Member

4. Sedimentology and geostatistical modeling of Quwara Member, Qasiim

Formation, Paleozoic Sandstone Resrvoir Outcrop Analog, Saudi Arabia, Mr.
Fadhel Al-Khalifah. Department of Earth Sciences, KFUPM. 2007. Member

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5. Use of Latest Artificial Intelligence Techniques of Predicting Permeability in the
HC Reservoir Using Well Log Data. Mr. Kashif Ahmad. SCHOOL OF
ENGINEERING, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK. 2008. External
Advisor and Member

6. Data Mining In Identifying Carbonate Lithofacies and Permeability from Well

Logs Based on Type-1 and Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Inference Systems: Methodology
and Comparative Studies. Mr. Sunday Olusanya Olatunji. Department of
Information and Computer Science, KFUPM. 2008. Member

7. A Novel Hybrid Computational Intelligence Model for the Characterization of Oil

and Gas Reservoirs. Anifowose Fatai Adesina. Department of Information and
Computer Science, KFUPM. 2009. Member

8. Estimation of Reservoir Properties From Seismic Attributes and Well log Data
using Artificial Intelligence. Mohammad Sitouah. Department of Earth Sciences,
KFUPM. 2009. Member

9. Prediction of PVT Properties using Soft Computing Techniques. Oloso Muirudeen

A. Department of Systems Engineering, KFUPM. 2009. Member

10. Comparing Hydrocarbon Volume between LSA (Laminated Sand Analysis) and
Standard Techniques in Low Resistivity Sandstone Reservoirs. O A. Bawazir.
Department of Earth Sciences, KFUPM. Dec. 2011- Feb. 2012. Member.

11. M. A. A. Elhaj. Effect Of Saturation on Acoustics of Carbonates. Department of

Petroleum Engineering, KFUPM. May. 2013. Main Advisor

12. Malik Arfaj. Estimating Layers Deliverability in Multi-Layered Gas Reservoirs

Using Artificial Intelligence. Department of Petroleum Engineering, KFUPM.
May 2011 -Aug. 2012. Main Advisor

13. Saleh Abdulrhman Al-Hidary. Wellbore Stability Assessment in a Shale

Formation. May 2014. Main Advisor
14. Wahbi Abdul Qader Al-Ameri. Effect of CO2 Sequestration on the Mechanical
Properties of Carbonate Rocks. Dec. 2014. Main Advisor

15. Wael Harbi. An Artificial Intelligence Approach for Predicting Water Saturation
in Carbonate Reservoirs. Dec. 2014. Main Advisor

16. A.M. Al-Hussain. An Integrated Approach for Downhole Leak Detection. Dec.
2014. PETE Dept. Member
17. Ayyaz Mustafa. Geological, Geochemical, and Geomechanical Characterization
of Qusaiba Shale. Dec. 2014. ES Dept. Member

18. A.K. B. Kubur. Geochemical, and Geomechanical Characterization of Qusaiba

Shale. Dec. 2014. ES Dept. Member

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19. M.I. M. ElHag. Development Of Stable Bentonite For Drilling Fluid
Formulations Using Local Sources. May. 2015. PETE Dept. Member

20. M. Wajeehuddin. Development of an Environment Friendly Mud Additive Using

Date Seeds, Grass and Grass Ash. May. 2015. PETE Dept. Member

21. A.W. Adeniji. A global optimization approach to the gradual deformation method
of history matching. May. 2015. PETE Dept. Member

22. A. S. Bin Thalab. Investigation of Saudi Bentonite and Nanoclay Admixed

Cement Slurry for Oil Well Cementing and Loss Circulation under HPHT
Conditions. May. 2015. PETE Dept. Member

23. M. He. Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Oil-Water Emulsions from

EOR Application in Oilfield Using Dissolved Air Flotation. May. 2015. PETE
Dept. Member
24. W.A. Khan. Effect of Carbon Nano Tubes on Oil Well Cement for High Pressure
High Temperature Applications. May. 2015. PETE Dept. Member

25. A. M. Ali. Log Porosity and Lithology Prediction from Seismic Data: Frontier
and Tensleep Formations, Wyoming. Mar. 2015. ESc Dept. Member

26. Ahmed Sahaf. Prediction of Flow Zone Indicators in Carbonate Reservoirs using
Hybrid Modeling. May 2015. Main Advisor.

27. Adnan Saleh Alghannam. Geological and Geomechanical Characterization of a

Permo-Triassic Carbonate Reservoir in Eastern Saudi Arabia. E.Sc. Department.
Dec. 2015. Member.

1. Zeeshan Tariq. Estimation of Acoustic Velocities and Rock Mechanical

Parameters using Artificial Intelligence Tools. Petroleum Engineering Dept. Dec.
2105. Main Advisor.

2. Mohammed Dhafer Alajmi. Risk Based Approach To Predict Casing Leaks Using
Electromagnetic Corrosion Logs. Petroleum Engineering Dept. Dec. 2105.
Member.

3. Abdaseed Kubur Bokhari Kubur. 3D Geostatistical Modeling of Facies and

Petrophysical Properties of the Upper Khartam Outcrop of Khuff Formation,
Central Saudi Arabia. Earth Science Dept. Dec. 2105. Member.

4. Mohamed Abdalsalam Hanfi. Formation damage quantification by nuclear

magnetic resonance. Petroleum Engineering Dept. Dec. 2105. Member.

5. Waleed Ejaz. Integration of electrofacies and geomechanical characteristics of

Sarah formation (potential tight gas reservoir), Rub Al-Khali Basin, Saudi Arabia.
Earth Science Dept. Dec. 2105. Member.

6.

PhD. Dissertation

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 1. Optimization of Drilling Parameters Using Specific Energy in Real-Time. M.A.
Khamis. PhD Dissertation. Department of Petroleum Engineering, KFUPM. Mar.
2012- May 2013. Member.

2. Mohammad H. Alqam. PhD Dissertation. Department of Petroleum Engineering,

Apr. 2012.- continued. An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of
Temperature Profile for Monitoring and Diagnosing of Fracture Stimulation
Treatments. Main Advisor (Student has discontinued?)

3. Ba Geri, Badr. PhD Dissertation. Filter Cake Removal of Barite Water-Based

Mud. Main Advisor. November, 2016.

4. Mohammed K. Al-Arfaj. A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Shale-

Fluid Interactions for Optimized Drilling Practices. Under progress. Main
Advisor.

5. Khalid Zidan. Co-Advisor

6. Ammar Mohammed Adam. High-Resolution Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, and

Diagenesis of Upper Khartam Member, Khuff Formation: Implication on
Reservoir Quality and Architecture. Outcrop Analog from Central Saudi Arabia.
Earth Science Department. Jan 2017. Member

2.5 LIST OF RESEARCH PROJECTS AT KFUPM/RI - Completed or in progress

1. PN: 21111 - Rock Compressibility and Formation Strength Indices in Sandstone

Reservoirs (1994-95) – Member (SR 4 millions)

2. PN: 21148 - Rock Mechanics of Ghawar Khuff Reservoirs (1995-97) (SR. 3.7 million) -
Project Manager

3. PN: 21140 - Rock Mechanics Consulting Services for Berri Field (1996)
- Member

4. PN: 21153 - In-situ Sand Consolidation by Low Temperature Oxidation (1995-1998) -

Member

5. PN: 21171 - Ultrasonic Velocity and Wave Attenuation Measurements (1997-2000) (SR.
3.14 million) - Project Manager

 Phase I: Measurement of physical, transport, and acoustic properties of rocks (1997-

98)
 Phase II: Calculation and analysis of attenuation data in rocks (1998)
 Phase III: Prediction of Fluid Saturation Around the Borehole from Repeated Full
Waveform Sonic Logs: A Feasibility Study (1999)

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  Phase IV: Measurement of acoustic properties of Khuff carbonate rocks (2000 - 2001)

6. CPM2205 - Wellbore Instability - Khafji Reservoir, Zuluf Field – Phase I (2000 - 2001)
(SR 0.8 million) - Project Manager

7. CPM2204 - Prediction of Sanding Tendency in Pre-Khuff Gas Wells (2000 - 2001) –

Member

8. CPM2203 - Stress Sensitivity and Response to Water Injection in Fractured Arab-D

Reservoir (2000 - 2001) - Member

9. CPM2211 - Calibration of Sonic Logs (Nov 1, 2000 – Nov. 30, 2001) (SR 0.6 millions) -
Project Manager

10. CPM2227 - Wellbore Instability - Khafji Reservoir, Zuluf Field – Phase II (Jun 2002 –
Sep 2003) (SR 1.6 million) - Project Manager

11. CPM2228 - Artificial Neural Network Models for Rock Mechanical Properties (Aug
2002 – Dec. 2004) - Member

12. CPM2236 – Saturation Estimation from Sonic and Saturation Logs (Sep 2003 – Jan 2004)
(SR 0.6 million) – Project Manager

13. CPM2248 – Critical assessment of key analytical methods for sanding prediction (Apr
2005 – Feb 2006) – Member and Liason

14. CPM2252 – Developing Fuzzy Logic Modeling Capability (Jun 2005 – May 2006) (SR
0.6 million) – Project Manager

15. CPM2266 - Analysis of core, drill cutting and formation fluid samples. (Apr 2006 – Apr
2009). – Member (SR 40 millions).

16. CPM2275 – Developing Fuzzy Logic Modeling Capability-Phase II (Apr 2007 – Jun
2008) (SR 0.5 million) – Project Manager

17. CPM2276 – Permeability Modeling for HRDH/Khuff, Using Fuzzy Logic Approach (Apr
2007 – Feb 2008) (SR 0.5 million) – Project Manager

18. CPM2286 – Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model to Determine

Permeability and Hydraulic Units for Carbonate Reservoirs in Saudi Arabia (Mar 2010 –
Mar 2011) (SR 0.5 million) – Project Manager

19. CPM2289 – Prediction of Permeability Profiles Using 3D Seismic Data and Openhole
Logs (Feb 2010 – Feb 2011) (SR 0.5 million) – Project Manager

20. 1.KACST-NSTIP - 08-OIL82-4 - Prediction of Permeability and Rock Mechanical

Properties, and Identification of Lithofacies Using Latest Artificial Intelligence
Techniques (Sep 2010 – Aug 2012). (SR 1.0 million) – Project Manager

21. CPM2255 – Development of an ANN model for reservoir fluid properties (PVT) (Sep
2005-ongoing) Member (SR 0.75 millions).

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22. CPM2262 - Core, drill cuttings and formation fluids/gas analysis in the area of Block
“A”, Rub-Al-Khali. Luksar Saudi Arabia. (4th Feb 2006 – 4th May 2013). – Member (SR
15.5 millions)

23. CPM22295 - Effect of Saturation and pore structure on acoustics of carbonates. (Nov. 1,
2011 - Dec 31, 2013) - Member. Budget: SR 2.2 Millions. Member.

24. KACST-TIC-CSS-6: Impact of CO2 sequestration on petrophysical and mineralogical

characteristics of potential formations and cap-rock. Mar 2013-Mar2015. – Member.

25. KACST AR30-258. A Decision Support System For Improving Directional Steering.
2012-14. – Member

26. NSTIP 11-OIL2144-04. Prediction of permeability in carbonates based on 3D seismic

and openhole log data using a triple-porosity model, Artificial Intelligence tools and
Geostatistics. Project No. Aug. 2013-Jul. 2015. SR 745,000. – Project Manager

27. CPM02303. Derivation of Geomechanical parameters to determine in situ stress in Arab-

D, Hanifa, and KHUFF reservoirs of the Abqaiq field. Total Budget: SR. 3 millions. Jul
2014 –Oct 2017. – Member

28. CPM02306. Modeling of Dynamic Array Saturations (MIDAS)”. funded by Saudi

Aramco through Research Institute at KFUPM. Total Budget: SR. 1106,360.59. Mar 2014
– May 2015. – Project Manager

29. NSTIP 14-OIL468-04. Facies, Diagenesis, and Reservoir Qualities of Late Ordovician
Sarah Formation, Subsurface Rub’ Al-Khali Basin, Saudi Arabia. Member. March 1,
2015-Feb 28, 2017. SR 1,966,660. Member.

30. DSR Reservoir Characterization Group Project. Qusaiba Member: outcrop Analog from
Northwest Saudi Arabia. Sep 2015 - Jun. 2017.

Plus several service projects involving rock mechanics service work.

2.6 LIST OF RESEARCH PROJECT PROPOSALS, PRE-PROPOSALS, OR

CONCEPTS – Completed or in progress

Proposals:

1995 Rock Mechanics Study of Ghawar Khuff Reservoirs

Submitted to S. Aramco - FUNDED (2 year project)

1996 An Investigation into the Fracture Toughness and Tensile Strength of Indigenous
Rocks (PW, E) - Submitted to KACST 1996.

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1997 Ultrasonic Velocity and Wave Attenuation Measurements
Submitted to S. Aramco - FUNDED (3 year project)

2000 Wellbore Instability - Khafji Reservoir, Zuluf Field – Phase I

Submitted to S. Aramco - FUNDED (approx. 1 year project)

2000 Prediction of Sanding Tendency in Pre-Khuff Gas Wells. Submitted to S. Aramco -

FUNDED (approx. 1 year project)

2000 Stress Sensitivity and Response to Water Injection in Fractured Arab-D Reservoir -
Submitted to S. Aramco - FUNDED (approx. 1 year project)

2001 Calibration of Sonic Logs - Submitted to S. Aramco - FUNDED (approx. 1 year

project)

2002 Wellbore Instability - Khafji Reservoir, Zuluf Field – Phase II.

Submitted to S. Aramco - FUNDED (approx. 1 year project)

2002 Artificial Neural Network Models for Rock Mechanical Properties - Submitted to S.
Aramco - FUNDED (approx. 1 year project)

2003 Saturation Estimation from Sonic and Saturation Logs - Submitted to S. Aramco -
FUNDED (approx. 1 year project)

2005 Critical assessment of key analytical methods for sanding prediction - Submitted to
S. Aramco - FUNDED (approx. 1 year project)

2005 Developing Fuzzy Logic Modeling Capability - Submitted to S. Aramco - FUNDED

(approx. 1 year project)

2006 Development of Monitoring System for Upstream Activities for the Ministry of
Petroleum AND Mineral resources - Submitted to The Ministry of Petroleum and
Mineral Resources.

2007 Developing Fuzzy Logic Modeling Capability- Phase II - FUNDED by S. Aramco.

2007 Permeability Modeling for HRDH/Khuff, Using Fuzzy Logic Approach - FUNDED
by S. Aramco.

2007 Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence in Enhancing Exploration and Production -
Submitted to the committee on Strategic Plan for Localization and Development of
Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Technologies.

2008 Prediction of Permeability and Rock Mechanical Properties, and Identification of

Lithofacies Using Latest Artificial Intelligence Techniques

2009 Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model to Determine Permeability and

Hydraulic Units for Carbonate Reservoirs in Saudi Arabia

2009 Prediction of Permeability Profiles Using 3D Seismic Data and Openhole Logs

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Concepts / Ideas:

1997 Development of "ROCKBASE," A Database for Mechanical Properties and

Stress Map For Saudi Arabian Petroleum Reservoirs - Submitted to S. Aramco.

1999 Increasing production from the depleting and ‘uneconomic’ fields susceptible to
severe sand production – Phase I - Submitted to S. Aramco.

2.7 LIST OF RESEARCH REPORTS

1994 Annual Task Report for PN-21111 (Mathematical modeling, numerical simulation
and software development).

1994 Second Annual Report for PN-21111.

1995 Draft and Final Reports for PN-21111.

1996 Annual Report for PN-21148.

1996 Project Report for PN-21140.

1997 Final Report for PN-21148.

1997 Final Report for Service Project: Rock Mech. Consulting Services for Berri Field.

1999 First Annual Report for PN-21171.

1999 Report for Phase - II of PN-21171.

1999 Report for Phase - III of PN-21171.

2000 Final Report for Project on Wellbore Instability.

2001 Final Report for Project on Calibration of Sonic Logs.

2003 Final Report - Wellbore Instability - Khafji Reservoir, Zuluf Field – Phase II.
Submitted to S. Aramco.

2004 Final Report – Saturation Estimation from Sonic and Saturation Logs Submitted to
S. Aramco.

2006 Progress Report - Critical assessment of key analytical methods for sanding
prediction.

2006 Final Report - Critical assessment of key analytical methods for sanding
prediction.

2006 Final Report - Developing Fuzzy Logic Modeling Capability Submitted to S.

Aramco.

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2008 Final Report - Permeability Modeling for HRDH/Khuff, using Fuzzy Logic
Approach

2008 Final Report - Developing Fuzzy Logic Modeling Capability – Phase II. Submitted
to S. Aramco.

2009 Final Report – Development of artificial neural network models for reservoir fluid
properties. Submitted to S. Aramco.

2010 Final Report - Developing Fuzzy Logic Modeling Capability – Phase II. Submitted
to S. Aramco.

Plus several small reports related to service work on rock mechanics.

Technical Reports (Before Joining The Research Institute, King Fahd University of
Petroleum and Minerals):

1991 Numerical Simulation of Pore Collapse, Reservoir Compaction and Surface

Subsidence, A Critical Review, Submitted to the Rock Mechanics Consortium
Members, May 1991. .

1991 Annual Research Report for the Oklahoma Center for Advancement of Science and
Technology (OCAST), June, 1991. .

1991 Mechanics of Reservoir Rocks, Submitted to the Rock Mechanics Consortium

Members, October 1991..

1992 Annual Research Report for the Oklahoma Center for Advancement of Science and
Technology (OCAST), June, 1992..

1993 Numerical Simulation of a Compacting Reservoir, Submitted to the Rock

Mechanics Research Center, March 1993..

1993 Pore Collapse Mechanisms in Reservoir Rocks, Final Report to the Oklahoma
Center for Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST), with M.
Azeemuddin and S. Mowar, July, 1993. .

3. PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE AND LEADERSHIP

3.1 RESEARCH GROUPS LED OR COORDINATED

Has coordinated the research in the area of Petroleum Related Rock Mechanics and Rock
Physics at the Research Institute, KFUPM.

For the last several years, he is coordinating the research in the area of Artificial Intelligence
application in Oil and Gas Industry.

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3.2 RESEARCH COMMITTEES PARTICIPATION

1997-9 Member, KFUPM/Saudi Aramco Technology Meetings, (Exploration & Petroleum

Engineering). In these meetings, potential projects that are of interest to Saudi
Aramco and can be executed at KFUPM-RI are discussed. I have actively
participated in these meetings and gave necessary input especially for research in
the new and emerging area of petroleum related rock mechanics.

3.3 LABORATORY DEVELOPMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

Surveyed for the instruments for the different project works and bought equipment worth
almost SR 1.5 million. Items 2, 3, and 4 below were purchased under my supervision and
recommendations after I personally visited the rock mechanics laboratories at Imperial
college, London; French Petroleum Institute at Paris, Rock Mechanics Laboratory at
SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway, and different rock mechanics laboratories in the U.S. The
equipment were purchased to suit the requirements of our projects after consultation and
input with the team members of the respective projects. This has led to a completion of the
existing setup of Petroleum Related Rock Mechanics facilities at the Research Institute. The
new equipment include:

1. Wellbore simulation laboratory: Took part in the design of the laboratory. The
equipment is designed to simulate the phonemenon of sand production in the
laboratory.

2. Anelastic Strain Recovery (ASR): Field Equipment for estimation of in-situ

stresses in the hydrocarbon reservoirs.

3. Differential Strain Curve Analysis (DSCA): Laboratory equipment for estimation

of in-situ stresses in the hydrocarbon reservoirs.

4. Ultrasonic Test System for Rocks: For measuring compressional and shear wave
velocities of reservoir rock samples at reservoir conditions of temperature and
pressure.

5. Fracture toughness testing setup and sample preparation: Took part in the design of
fracture toughness setup design and also in buying relevant equipment for creating
straight and curved notches in the rock specimens, especially the Rotating Disk
Saw and the Wire Saw.

6. Tensile Strength Determination setup using Brazilian Disk approach: Took a

leading part in designing the experimental setup for this test.

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 7. Steady State Permeability Measurement Setup for highly permeable samples: Took
a leading part in a team to prepare a setup for measurement of permeability at
extremely high confining pressures of 10,000 psi. The whole setup was built using
the available accessories in the institute and buying some spare parts.

8. Pulse Decay Permeability Measurement Setup for tight samples: Took part in a
team to prepare a setup for measurement of permeability at extremely high
confining pressures of 10,000 psi. The whole setup was built using the available
accessories in the institute and buying some spare parts.

9. Porosity Measurement Setup (in parallel to the Steady State and Pulse Decay
Permeability Measurement Setup): Took part in a team to prepare a setup for
measurement of permeability at extremely high confining pressures of 12,000 psi.
The whole setup was built using the available accessories in the institute and
buying some spare parts. Items 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 have led to significant cost
savings as no new equipment or accessories were ordered for these setups.

3.4 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (IN PARALLEL TO OTHER

ASSIGNMENTS)

Attended conferences on the topics of petroleum engineering and geology in different

countries including US, Norway, Dubai, KSA, Bahrain etc.

Graduate Courses Attended: Production Engineering (1996); Drilling Engineering

(1997): Well Logging (1998); Subsurface Production Engineering (1998).

Short Courses attended: Waterflooding (1995); Modern Well test analysis (1995);
Geology of Arabian Peninsula (1998)

3.5 MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Founder Member of American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)

Member of International Society of Rock Mechanics (ISRM)
Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (Saudi Arabia Section).
Member of Dhahran Geological Society

4. PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

4.1 COURSE TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS AT KFUPM

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Course teaching Assignments at KFUPM

2013-14 Reservoir Rock Mechanics (PETE 670) for Graduate and Post Graduate
Students (Fall Semester).

2011, 2012 Artificial Intelligence for Petroleum Engineers (PETE 685) for Graduate and
Post Graduate Students (Spring Semester).

2010 (fall), 2010 (spring), 2009 (fall), 2009 (fall), 2007 (fall), 2006 (fall), 2005 (fall)
Petroleum Related Rock Mechanics (PETE 400) for Senior Undergraduate
Students (Fall Semester 0102).

1987-1989 Taught a course on "Engineering Graphics" for several semesters (During the
time when I was Lecturer-B at the Civil Engineering Department, KFUPM)

Senior Project Supervision

2002-3 Mechanical Engineering Student (Mr. Mohammed Al-Harbi) – Co-supervisor

1998-9 Petroleum Engineering Student (Mr. Mazen Bernawi)

1999-0 Petroleum Engineering Student (Mr. Saad A. Al-Dauwas).

4.2 PARTICIPATION IN SHORT COURSES

1. Coordinated and taught the short course, “Rock Mechanics for Petroleum
Engineers.” May, 2006.

2. Coordinated and taught the short course “Rock Mechanics for Petroleum
Engineers.” Phase-I in Apr, 2003 and Phase-II in Oct, 2004.

3. Coordinated and taught the short course, “Wellbore Instability.” Apr, 2003.

4. Coordinated and taught the short course, “Rock Mechanics for Petroleum
Engineers.” Apr, 2002.

5. Gave lectures on "Rock Stabilization," in a short course, "Stabilization of

Indigenous Soils for Constructional Purposes," held in March, 1997.

Training Students or Junior Personnel

1997 Co-supervisor for a 5-week training program for Undergraduate Student (Mr. Ali M.
Ramady)

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1996-8 Training two engineers (Mr. Safdar Khan & Mr. Bechir Al-Mtawaa) in the
Petroleum Engineering section on different aspects of Petroleum Related Rock
Mechanics related experimental and theoretical work.

4.3 COMMITTEE WORK

2009 Organizing Committee Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers Technical

Workshop at Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
2009 KFUPM Housing Committee
2005 The Research Institute Personnel Committee and Personnel Sub-committee
2004 Organizing Committee Member, KFUPM-Saudi Aramco Petroleum Engineering
Research Review – Second Annual Workshop
2003 Organizing Committee Member, Workshop on Petroleum Engineering Research at
the Center for Petroleum and Minerals
2002 Marketing and Industry Relations Committee of the Center for Petroleum and
Minerals
2002 Conference and Publication Committee of The Research Institute
1999 Member, Technical Editing Board of The Research Institute
1999 Member, Equipment Selection Committee
1998 Member, Technical Editing Board of The Research Institute
1997 Member, Promotion Committee for an Engineer (Adhoc), Division I, RI
1997 Member, Euipment Acceptance Committee (Adhoc) on Ultrasonic Wave Velocity
Equipment
1996 Member, Euipment Acceptance Committee (Adhoc) on ASR equipment
1994 Member , Division I Adhoc Committee (Adhoc) on RI Awards

4.4 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

Software Development
Developed a Finite Element based software for simulating the stress-state and onset of sand
production in reservoir samples.

Evaluation at The Research Institute and at the Department of Petroleum Engineering:

Evaluation for the years 2009-2015: Excellent
Evaluation for the year 1997-2008: Outstanding
Evaluation for the year 1997-1995: Excellent

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 5. AWARDS
Special Recognition / Honors and Awards:

2003 Project Manager of the team awarded for Best Research Team Award of the
Research Institute, KFUPM for the project, "Wellbore Instability – Khafji
Reservoir (Phase II)"

2002 Best Research Project Manager Award of the Research Institute, KFUPM for
the project, "Wellbore Instability – Khafji Reservoir (Phase I)"

1999 Project Manager of the team awarded for Best Research Team Award of the
Research Institute, KFUPM for the project, "Rock Mechanics Study of Ghawar
Khuff Reservoirs" (PN 21148).

1999 Appreciation from the Project Coordinator from Saudi Aramco for "excellent
execution and reporting" and "one of the best technically study I have been
personally associated with" for the project, "Rock Mechanics Study of Ghawar
Khuff Reservoirs" (PN 21148).

1999 Member of the team for Best Short Course Award by KFUPM.

1999 Appreciation plaque by SPE Student Chapter, KFUPM for involvement in the
local SPE chapter.

1996 Member of the team awarded for Best Research Team Award of the Research
Institute, KFUPM for the project, "Rock Compressibility and Formation
Strength Indices in Sandstone Reservoirs" (PN 21111).

1993 Best paper award by “Indian Geotechnical Journal”

1992 Nominated in "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and

Colleges".

1992 Granted Honorary Citizenship of the State of Oklahoma by the Governor of

Oklahoma for "reposing special trust and confidence in the ability and
integrity".

1992 Honored as one of the "Outstanding Student of the University of Oklahoma,"

Norman, Oklahoma

1991 International Leadership Class Scholarship, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman,

1991 Cleo Cross International Student Scholarship for academic

accomplishments, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.

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